verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
celebrate a festival
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The festival is celebrated each July.
celebrate an occasion
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To celebrate the occasion, a small party was held at his home.
celebrate Christmas
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How does your family usually celebrate Christmas?
celebrate sb’s birthday
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He will celebrate his 90th birthday on 25th August.
celebrate/commemorate/mark an event (= do something to show that you remember it )
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Fans observed a minute’s silence to commemorate the tragic event.
say/celebrate Mass (= perform this ceremony as a priest )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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Margaret Whigham was the most celebrated deb of 1930.
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I have a collection of glasses intended for the most celebrated of all drinks dating back to the 1930s.
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She was back at Madame Tussaud's to see her own likeness unveiled in the world's most celebrated Hall of Fame.
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His exploits on the Colorado River had made him a national hero, the most celebrated adventurer since Lewis and Clark.
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Her day has been celebrated most reverently every year, and the day of her translation has been particularly blessed.
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Daryl Johnston, the most celebrated blocking back on the planet, is serenaded with moose calls anytime he touches the football.
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But his flashy lifestyle and taste for violence have made him the most feared -- and the most celebrated .
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achievement
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Added to this were attractive displays of children's work, to celebrate their achievement .
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How do you celebrate children's achievements in your school?
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Read in studio Britain's top Olympic and paralympic athletes gathered today to celebrate the outstanding achievements in their sports.
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But since the War exhibitions have been held at Brussels, Montreal and Osaka by wealthy nations, celebrating their achievements .
anniversary
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And forces with an interest in subverting the sanity of this Dominion may be readying themselves to celebrate that anniversary .
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Read in studio Welcome back: The charity Oxfam celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year.
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This year, Artweek celebrates its tenth anniversary , and events have a distinctly cosmopolitan flavour.
birthday
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Here the bridge between us is the Society of St Peter Apostle, whose hundredth birthday we celebrate this year.
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He was a man whose birthday was being celebrated by his wife, his daughter, and his best friend.
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The following year, William's birthday was celebrated with great rejoicings throughout London and Westminster.
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Which has always guaranteed Caleb a birthday the whole world celebrates .
centenary
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Lord's celebrated its centenary of Test cricket and produced a match worthy of the occasion.
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Eros, by Sir Alfred Gilbert, was erected in 1893 and celebrates its centenary on June 29.
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They were the first country to organise an international sevens tournament, which they did to celebrate their Centenary in 1973.
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From Ottawa we spent a memorable day in Prescott where the club was celebrating its centenary .
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It's not the way to celebrate your centenary , as manager Ally Robertson knows only too well.
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Modern aversion is encapsulated by a notice about Heartlanders, a 1989 community play celebrating Birmingham's centenary as a city.
city
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Many of the injured were City office workers celebrating the Tories' election victory.
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His colleagues broke open a champagne bottle inside the City Hall to celebrate .
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Heseltine backs down on terror bomb cover Cathy Gunn CITY people will celebrate Christmas with lighter hearts.
day
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Now, with something concrete to show for the day , I celebrated by finally doing the dishes.
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It was a day to celebrate .
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McConkey had started the day celebrating his retirement as headmaster of Gransha Primary School.
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And, as on this day , to celebrate the rites of passage that demarcate often difficult lives.
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It is a day to celebrate the rich variety of people within our parish rather than create unnecessary divisions.
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With time, he also staged an annual Team Day to celebrate and share the most innovative accomplishments.
end
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They all ate and drank, and celebrated the end of the sheep-shearing by singing their favourite songs.
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A mere two minutes passed before Cooks was celebrating again in the end zone, this time after a 32-yard punt return.
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There was, he said, a triumphalist literature which celebrated the end of the struggle as we had known it.
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With Bushmills distillery just up the road, this is an apt place to celebrate the end of a great walk.
event
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They regularly lead Sunday services at the parish church and welcome the community into school to celebrate special events .
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True or not, it was a widely, and enthusiastically, celebrated event in the town.
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A short history of the Sunday School was written to celebrate the event .
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When Peter was made curate in a northern suburb of Bristol, Anna celebrated the event by becoming pregnant.
family
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Two weeks ago my family celebrated the marriage of my daughter Anne, the Princess Royal.
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The family will be celebrating again in June when one of his daughters gets married.
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We are very pleased to have Gregory and Gillian and their family here to celebrate with us.
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The first play they mounted was for Alan and his family - to celebrate the completion of the pageant.
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Read in studio A family is celebrating more than five hundred years of work at a local docks.
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Her birthday was on 21st December and he arranged a family dinner party to celebrate it.
festival
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Hindus celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights.
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A later recognition of the relic occurred on July 23, 1894, which was celebrated by many festivals .
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Both celebrated a major birth festival on 25 December.
holiday
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Now the grandparents baby-sit frequently, celebrate holidays with their grandchildren, and attend all their rites of passage.
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We may celebrate different holidays , we may pray to different gods, we may carry different bibles.
jubilee
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In 1809 he celebrated his Jubilee , fifty years on the throne.
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As Milton Keynes celebrates it's jubilee , the arguments will continue long into the next century.
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To celebrate its jubilee , the club is holding a top quality weekend tournament at the Walsall Polytechnic Campus on April 18-20.
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In 1953, the National Association celebrated its Jubilee and the District its fortieth anniversary.
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Come along and celebrate our Silver Jubilee in 1992!
life
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Men aren't afraid to be soft, girly and foppish and celebrate the inner life .
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We use the music to celebrate life .
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There was more, though, to celebrate than a life of political service.
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Chocolate turns this into a family tradition and a story celebrating life and family.
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Join us in celebrating his life .
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She celebrates the high life , he writes a column called Low Life.
mass
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The friar was up just before dawn and celebrated his Mass , Bonaventure and Benedicta being his only congregation.
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He had gone, as usual, to celebrate Sunday mass .
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Thirteen churches in the Louth-South Armagh border zone have been asked not to celebrate Sunday mass .
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Bernard also celebrated an anniversary Mass in his home church of St Bede's.
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The question as to whether an unchaste priest might celebrate the mass became important.
occasion
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He celebrated the occasion , appropriately enough in Bristol, by helping to polish off Gloucestershire's first innings yesterday morning.
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To celebrate the occasion , a small party was held at his home in Newmilns, given by his wife and family.
party
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Read in studio A court has heard how four men murdered the host at a party held to celebrate his own engagement.
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But the reed-slayers declared victory Sunday with a tailgate party celebrating the removal of an estimated 165 tons of the plant.
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The Conservative Party was celebrating the election of another administration.
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He'd been stabbed in the neck during a party to celebrate his engagement.
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Mathilde had planned a party for her, a party to celebrate her sixteenth birthday in a week's time.
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I had a big party to celebrate .
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The party was to celebrate the couple's engagement.
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Coming-out parties celebrate more than debutantes.
return
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Defender, Andy Theodosiou celebrated his return to the team with a goal.
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Did they love Gretzky enough to override their antipathy toward the Kings and celebrate his return ?
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Seventy people die on the spot, and the town, far from celebrating the ark's return , finds itself in mourning.
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All the kingdom celebrated their return , and the sultan welcomed them with ten days of feasting.
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Drinks were ordered and the crowd celebrated Modi's return .
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Only impossibly high personal expectations kept Gea Johnson from celebrating her triumphant return to track.
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They celebrate the return of their not-so-prodigal sons in some considerable style.
success
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How, then, do we now celebrate Provincial's success as the 1990s begin?
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Read in studio Conservationists have been celebrating the success of a campaign to save a series of weirs on the River Avon.
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It will celebrate the successes of science teaching in schools and colleges and will share the latest ideas.
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Newsletters provide a tremendously powerful means of publicly celebrating the successes of children and the school.
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We should always be looking for opportunities to celebrate success .
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The opportunity to celebrate real success is often missed.
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And the group have now celebrated their diploma success .
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They will be open and honest, but will be caring and will recognise and celebrate success .
victory
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Pindar celebrated that victory in his Ninth Pythian ode.
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Nguyen Trai celebrated the victory with a poem of hope: Henceforth our country is safe.
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Other poets celebrated the victories of the Seleucids and of the Attalids against the same barbarians.
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His teammates were long gone, headed home to celebrate the biggest victory of their pro careers.
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Hoarse from the final days of furious campaigning, Clinton celebrated his victory at a party with campaign staff on Thursday night.
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Charleston celebrated the victory far into the night.
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The Tories should celebrate their victory .
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She celebrated his courtroom victories and consoled him when he lost.
wedding
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Top wedding: Two pensioners celebrate their wedding on Saturday at a top nightclub.
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They were married at Chiseldon, Wiltshire, and recently celebrated their diamond wedding .
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So they lived happily in his fortress for a month and a day, celebrating their wedding feast.
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The pair, both 73, decided to quit on the same day they celebrated their golden wedding .
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He leaves a wife, Kerry, with whom he would have celebrated his second wedding anniversary this month.
year
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In Profile is intended as a final presentation this year to celebrate 10 years of survival.
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This will be his first year celebrating Oktoberfest in the establishment he's owned for the last three years.
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Read in studio Welcome back: Next year the Gloucestershire Regiment celebrates its three hundredth birthday.
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This year Colnaghi's also celebrates the tenth anniversary of the opening of its New York city gallery.
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All around the globe at this time of year people celebrate the coming of new life into the world.
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Last year the journal celebrated its tenth anniversary.
years
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In May, 1981, Eva celebrated thirty years as a Salvation Army officer.
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It was the year in which we celebrated the first twenty-five years of a successful university.
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That same year the Salvation Army was celebrating a hundred years of witness in Rhodesia.
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To celebrate 70 years of their product, Carnation has produced a model replica of its original 1922 Morris Delivery Van.
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To celebrate 70 years of its product, Carnation has produced a model replica of its original 1922 Morris Delivery Van.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Congratulations on your promotion - we must go out and celebrate !
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Harry celebrated his thirtieth birthday with a meal in a fancy restaurant.
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His poems celebrate the joys of love.
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The graduation ceremony allows students to celebrate their achievements with family and friends.
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We're celebrating Katie's birthday on Friday.
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What do you want to do to celebrate our anniversary this year?
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When Peggy turned 40, she invited 40 friends to help her celebrate .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And then they celebrated, all as one.
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He crossed the road well ahead of the militiamen and rode into the encampment where the wedding was still being celebrated.
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He was to celebrate the inauguration in Florida speaking up for the black voters who feel disenfranchised.
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I was past putting the tent up, celebrating and wondering why my arms did not drop off.
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It is a day to celebrate the rich variety of people within our parish rather than create unnecessary divisions.
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This will be his first year celebrating Oktoberfest in the establishment he's owned for the last three years.
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We will be back next year to celebrate our fourth pilgrimage.